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Chuck Ross is the managing director of TVWeek.com. He's been involved in the TV business ever since he sold cable TV subscriptions in Santa Monica, Calif., door-to-door in the mid-to-late 1970s. He's had regular gigs reporting and/or editing about TV and advertising for Cablevision magazine,The Hollywood Reporter, the San Francisco Chronicle, Inside Media and Advertising Age. He first joined the predecessor to TVWeek, Electronic Media, in 2000.
"Current TV, the network co-founded by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, was sold for about $500 million to Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based cable-news channel, according to two people with knowledge of the deal," reports Bloomberg. The story also says,…
Media stocks performed well during 2012, with most of them beating the upswing in the benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500 index, Deadline.com reports. The S&P was up 13.4% during the year, the piece notes, but pacing the big media conglomerates…
Two incidents during C-SPAN’s coverage of the fiscal cliff maneuvering on Capitol Hill caused some observers to think the network had been hacked — and led to an apology from the network, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Both incidents involved…
After a relatively controversy-free 2012 — by Charlie Sheen standards — the star of FX’s "Anger Management" was overdue. So it may not come as a big surprise that the actor sparked one last brouhaha before the year ended. The…
The host of ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” has a new show, B&C reports. Ty Pennington will host “American Journey,” a new monthly 30-minute series on HLN. “The 10-episode series, which is sponsored by Chevrolet, tells the stories of people…
With the conclusion of NBC’s "Sunday Night Football" game that put the Washington Redskins into the playoffs and eliminated the Dallas Cowboys, the NFL and the TV networks have firmed up the playoff schedule, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Games…
Kathy Griffin, known for her past antics on CNN’s live New Year’s Eve coverage, "outdid herself" in this week’s broadcast when she tried to simulate oral sex on her friend and co-host, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, reports the New York Daily…
In an article in the U.K.’s Daily Mail, CNN host Piers Morgan writes that he may deport himself from the U.S. if the country won’t change its "crazy gun laws." Morgan wrote about his reaction to a petition created on…
The return date for "Good Morning America" host Robin Roberts, who has been off the ABC morning show while she deals with medical issues, will be in May 2013 at the earliest, and more likely June, reports TMZ.com. An earlier…
One of the real-life heros of the events depicted in Ben Affleck’s acclaimed movie "Argo" has died. "John Sheardown, an unflappable Canadian diplomat in Tehran during the Iran hostage crisis who helped shelter six American “house guests” until they were…